Eloquent

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Eloquent

Eloquent running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard with four different panes open.
Stable release	2.4.3 (January 30, 2012 (2012-01-30)) [±]
Preview release	Non [±]
Operating system	Mac OS X
Available in	Multilingual
Type	Personal, Religion, Christian
License	Freeware
Website	Eloquent

Eloquent is a free & open-source application for research and study of God and his word. It is developed specifically for Macintosh computers running Mac OS X.

Eloquent allows you to read and browse many different bibles translations in different languages from Hebrew to Albanian. As well as reading devotionals, commentaries, dictionaries and lexicons, it also supports searching and advanced features such as services so that you can access the Bible in any program.

And because Eloquent is based on The SWORD Project, it is compatible with a growing collection of over 200 texts available in over 50 languages.

Version History

Version 2.3.5 continues with Snow Leopard development. However, starting with version 2.4.0, Eloquent has started Mac OS X Lion testing only, implementing features that are specific only to the Lion operating system.

Release Notes

Version	Release date	Features
2.3.3	June 15, 2011	Added spell checking context menu to notes display. It is now possible to add unknown words to the Mac OS X dictionary. Preview Pane now shows text as HTML rendered instead of plain text. Fixed problem where Eloquent didn’t honor the individual module font setting.
2.3.5	July 16, 2011	Fixed footnotes display in tooltip and preview pane updated version SWORD and module development utilities

See also

The SWORD Project